Leicester B. Goodell Biography


	This biography appears on pages 546-547 in "History of Minnehaha
 	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed
 	and edited by Joy Fisher, http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000031
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GOODELL, LEICESTER B., was born in Buffalo, New York, December, 21, 1833.  When 
twelve years old he commenced work for himself at first in a box factory, then 
in a lath mill and ship yard, and when eighteen years old went to Illinois and 
worked on a farm five years.  He then worked at the mason's trade until the civil 
war broke out, when he enlisted in the three months' service, and after that re-
enlisted in Company B, 34th Illinois infantry, where he served a little over three 
years, and then enlisted in the Second Minnesota battery, and served until the 
close of the war.  He then engaged in mason work and the scrap-iron business until 
in the spring of 1883, when he moved to Dakota, and located at Howard on the 7th 
of March of that year.  He came to Sioux Falls on the 15th day of September, 1891, 
where he has since been engaged in city farming.  He is an independent, positive 
character, and freely expresses his opinion upon public matters, and is an honest, 
upright citizen.